Michel Serres, Hermes I: Communication, Translated by Louise Burchill, Introduction by Paul A. Harris, University of Minnesota Press, 2023 For the first time in English, the introductory volume in a major French philosopher’s groundbreaking series of poetic transdisciplinary works Volume one of this first English translation of Michel Serres’s foundational series establishes a new way …
Ottavio Marzocca, Il virus della biopolitica: forme e mutazioni, Edizioni Efesto (2023) La pandemia ha confermato che la biopolitica è una forma essenziale della politica dominante. Essa tuttavia non ne è il “paradigma”, ma è parte di un insieme di tecniche di governo, in cui il primato della razionalità economica s’intreccia con la pervasività delle …
Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil. Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity, University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming February 2024 Philosopher Michel Foucault’s cultural criticism crosses disciplines and is well known as an influence on modern conceptions of knowledge and power. Less well known are the five trips he took to Brazil between 1965 and 1976. Although a coup …
A Philosophy of Silence: Charles E. Scott’s ‘Telling Silence’ (Nietzsche, Foucault, and Poeisis), Acid Horizon podcast, 9 October 2023. Charles E. Scott, Telling Silence. Thresholds to No Where in Ordinary Experiences, SUNY Press, November 2023. Description In Telling Silence, Charles E. Scott speaks of silence, often indirectly, in such ways as to create occasions in …
Michel Foucault, La legge del pudore, a cura di Caro Gervasi e Lorenzo Petrachi, Orthotes Editrice, Napoli-Salerno 2023, 160 pp., 16 euro (collana: Teoria sociale) Questa raccolta presenta per la prima volta la conversazione radiofonica tra Michel Foucault, Jean Danet e Guy Hocquenghem nota con il titolo La loi de la pudeur inquadrandola nell’insieme di …
Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures. A Transnational Critical Encounter. Presented and introduced by John Rachmann, Routledge, Forthcoming 2024. This book makes available, for the first time in English, lectures and interviews that Foucault gave in Japan in 1978, reconstructing their context, and isolating the question of their singular relevance for us today. In these forgotten …
Claussen, Emma. Politics and ‘Politiques’ in Sixteenth-Century France: A Conceptual History. Ideas in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. The word ‘politique’, in both sixteenth-century and contemporary French, refers to the theory and practice of …
Michel Foucault, Dossier Iran, Traduzione di Sajjad Lohi, Neri Pozza, 2023 A quasi quarantantacinque anni dalla nascita della Repubblica Islamica, l’Iran è attraversato da rivolte e scioperi che sfidano il potere delle autorità religiose. La rivoluzione iraniana sembra irrimediabilmente giunta alla sua fine. Di quell’evento, sorto tra il 1978 e il 1979, conserviamo una testimonianza …
Sujin Lee, Wombs of Empire. Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan, Stanford University Press, Forthcoming, October 2023 Japan’s contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country’s efforts to bolster their population in order to address attendant socioeconomic challenges. However, though this anxiety about and discourse around population is …
Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth. Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault, Chicago University Press, 2023 A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault’s history of truth. Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and conspiracy-laden society. In this provocative work, Daniele Lorenzini argues that such criticism fundamentally misunderstands the philosopher’s project. Foucault did not question …
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